It sounds like you're claiming C++ is as convenient as a 'HLL'. If so, I think the divide is too great for us to talk across. I've worked in C++ for ten years,

It sounds like you're claiming C++ is as convenient as a 'HLL'. If so, I think the divide is too great for us to talk across. I've worked in C++ for ten years, but I think scripts in perl or python are more convenient for many tasks. I haven't met anybody who disagreed about something so basic, so I'm not sure how to respond. I use unordered_map all the time, but I wouldn't claim it's the same as support for literal hash-tables in the language. Implicit typing is useful if I am happy to allow my tasks to die at runtime because I screwed up. After all, C++ apps often segfault when I screw up.